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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1902.
Excavations
- Leopoldo Batres initiates first major excavations at Monte Albán.
- E. A. Wallis Budge begins project at Meroë.
- Ludwig Borchardt leads Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft excavations at the Ancient Egyptian necropolis of Abusir.
- Georgios Sotiriadis excavates the tomb of the Macedonian warriors at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC).
Finds
- May 17 – Antikythera mechanism found by Valerios Stais
- Lansing Man found near Lansing, Kansas on the western bank of the Missouri River
- Etruscan chariot at Monteleone di Spoleto
- Tuxtla Statuette
- Böyük Dəhnə ancient artifacts
- Saimaluu Tash petroglyphs
- Tomb KV45 (Userhet) in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, discovered by Howard Carter working for Theodore M. Davis.
- Neolithic settlement of Magoula Balomenou near Chaeronea, discovered by Georgios Sotiriadis.
- Arvid Andrén, Swedish classical art historian (d. 1999).
Deaths
- March 2 – Kate Bradbury Griffith, English Egyptologist (b. 1854)
- October 7 – Henry Syer Cuming, antiquarian, collector and secretary of the British Archaeological Association (b. 1817)
See also
- List of years in archaeology
- 1901 in archaeology
- 1903 in archaeology